Influence on the World

Today, while reading a literary criticism of Anne of Green Gables, https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchen6/www/collection/514A/eva.htm, a certain quote stood out. It reads, " Our perception of reality often becomes the blueprint for our lives." In Anne's case, her imaginings affected her everyday life. She was a dreamer, constantly trying to form her world to fit the way she saw things  inside her head. She had so many ideas that she formed a story club in order to 'cultivate her imagination.' Anne influenced so many people because she dared to dream big and spoke of the things in her imagination unabashedly. People today are still dreaming, and imagining things that they want to happen in their own lives. In the digital age, we are now capable of spreading our thoughts and ideas to the entire world. The hope is that our own perceptions of reality influence someone else and their own perceptions. We aren't speaking to ourselves, but to the entire world. The only problem is everyone wants to be unique and to put their every thought and feeling out there for everyone to see. Like Dr. Burton said, a lot of content on the internet is inert and doesn't really have a point. However, the digital media has the potential to act as a medium for our own ideas to become the blueprint for other people's ideas about the world.